From: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 00:11:37 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: There is no Agent Toby Tyler at the FBI [UK Observer St
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Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com> writes:
> At 03:17 PM 8/28/96 -0700, Richard Charles Graves wrote:
> >...two different sources, both of whom are anonymous because they work for
> >competing newspapers, tell me.
> >
> >Could someone else with contacts/time to kill/attributability please confirm
> >this?
> 
> When I first saw the name, I remembered my misspent youth:
> Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960)
> USA 1960 Color 
> Produced by Walt Disney Productions 

     Which proves little (though it is suggestive). People get names for
a variety of reasons, and before 1960, there would have been little
reason *not* to use the name. Back in the 70's I remember hearing
many reports from a news announcer at the BBC World Service named
Dick Tracy.

Peter Trei
trei@process.com